It is a mystery why you and I, and others, are now come into a cocoon, where the treasures are hidden from the masses, the world, while in plain sight. How far removed from the early Church we have come, particularly in the USA—from that early Church Christ established in Peter, standing over the old gates of Hell. It is truly a miracle to take that first scary step approaching the Church, through the gauze of slander, lies, mis-information and near clinically proportioned ignorance and bias of and against Christ’s Church, the Catholic Church. It is as if the power of the Holy Spirit moved mightily from the power of the heart for Jesus, to the head, and the power of Reason which emboldens the soul by way of Wisdom. Can I ever live up to all I have learned, and be once saved always saved? Of course not. But the striving is the Way of the Cross, and the state of Grace is availed to the People of God, and I try to rest in his Mercy, for now knowing, I carry a heavier weight and responsibility for obedience, discipline, piety and conscience, by His Grace.
Good for you.
Hi Rita,
I hope you have a Blessed Christmas. I think the actual issue here is, many of us Protestants simply see things in the catechism of the Roman Catholic Chrurch that arent in Scripture. I am an ex-catholic. I became a Protestant while serving in the Army, when I met and became friendly with a Protestant Chaplain. The whole issue of purgatory, confession of sins to a Priest, and the Priest determining what one’s penance is, in order to be forgiven, when the Scripture tells all we need to do is repent of our sins. I could go on and on, and I love my Catholic brothers and sisters, but their insistence that the RCC is the “One true faith” gets a little old at times.